The holidays are over, which means everyone is now scrambling to get healthy and work off all that feasting they did last week! Rather than go shopping and buy a whole workout outfit, why not make your own yoga pants? They can be customized to fit your exact style and body type, so they’ll be the comfiest pants you own!
Fabrics & materials used:
- 3/4 yard Black Perfotex Compression Jersey
- 1/3 yard Black High Compression PowerNet Mesh
This project probably took about 30 minutes, start to finish, so if you’re looking for an easy DIY to start off the new year, this one is absolutely perfect.
To draft the pattern, I followed this sew-along that another blogger did this summer. To make them a little more sporty, I added the mesh panel to the bottom of each leg, which you can see above!
Once I drew up my pattern, all I needed to do was cut out the shape I wanted at the bottom. Since the mesh had a slightly tighter stretch than the jersey, I widened the mesh panels just slightly.
Since I don’t have a serger, a zig-zag stitch did the trick just fine! I also added a 3″ waistband to the top, skipping the elastic inside since the compression jersey stayed up fine without it. The selvedge of the mesh also looked pretty interesting so I chose to leave the leg bottoms unfinished.
Are you going to be trying your own leggings? Which fabrics are you going to use?
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